Girls Made Pact To 'Get Pregnant Together'

[Libertine]

I keep hearing about this silly story on the news. The media is having a field day with it.

Best part -

More shocking is that all of the possible fathers of the girls' children are believed to be in their early and mid-twenties with one of the fathers reportedly being a 24-year-old 'homeless man'.

17 High School Girls Made Pact To 'Get Pregnant Together' - News

17 High School Girls Made Pact To 'Get Pregnant Together'

Authorities are investigating a possible pregnancy pact made between 17 teenage girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts.

Authorities in the state of Massachusetts are investigating a possible "pregnancy pact" between 17 teenage girls from Gloucester High School in the seaside town of Gloucester, Mass. who they believe made a pact to get pregnant all together at the same time.

Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine that the girls, none of which are over the age of 16, made the possible "pregnancy pact" and last October sometime went to the school clinic to get pregnancy tests and were very upset every time they found out they were not pregnant.

More shocking is that all of the possible fathers of the girls' children are believed to be in their early and mid-twenties with one of the fathers reportedly being a 24-year-old 'homeless man'. They all face possible charges for having sex with minors.

Parents and adults in the Gloucester community blame broken families and movies like "Juno" and "Knocked Up," which target teenagers, for making them believe that pregnancies are the best thing that could happen to them.

Meanwhile, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, a member of the school committee, has placed some blame on the "hard economic time" the city is going through and stated that the existence of such a pact is "believable, in the sense that it would explain this spike" in teenage pregnancies, referring to the fact that the number of pregnancies were four times as high than last year.

The "hard economic time" may have been in reference to the encountering hardships that the fishing town of Gloucester, who with a population of 30,000, is going through due to a decline in the fishing industry.

"This is a city in transition going through a hard economic time," stated Ms. Kirk. "There are cuts in economic programs, cuts in services, cuts in after-school programs, and they’re all impacting the social climate. We really let these kids down."

"It’s the social environment these girls are coming from," added Kirk. "They think that a baby can give them love or give them status or fill an empty space in their life, and these girls are very, very young. And I think if you talk to any teenage mother who is caring for an infant, the road is not easy."

The reported "pregnancy pact" between the 17 teenage girls has now sparked a heated debate over contraception and education in Gloucester, which is heavily Roman Catholic.

Already in May, after the hospital that administers grants for the clinic opposed making contraceptives available to students, the school clinic’s medical director and its chief nurse practitioner both resigned back in May and because Gloucester High School’s health curriculum has been cut for budget reasons, there is no sex education, according to Ms. Kirk.

Meanwhile, other teenage girls from Gloucester High School, in addition to the 17 girls known to be pregnant, continue to arrive at the clinic asking for pregnancy tests.

[Big Red 11]

Morons. Utter morons.

[E. Writer]

I just heard about this, and think it's the stupidest **** ever. These little.. dare I say, sluts, think they know what it takes to parent a child when in reality they WILL regret it if they went through with it.

What the **** is wrong with the youth of today?

[DanteTheLegend]

Originally Posted by E. Writer

I just heard about this, and think it's the stupidest **** ever. These little.. dare I say, sluts, think they know what it takes to parent a child when in reality they WILL regret it if they went through with it.

What the **** is wrong with the youth of today?

The youth are getting smarter and smarter by the day! (sarcasm)

These stupids girls don't even have a job to support their children, they should at least think really good about these type of things before trying them, think about the down sides of it, like money, food.

[kevinXcore]

They're getting what they deserve for being so stupid.
I live in Gloucester, New Jersey. Gloucester City is seriously like 20 minutes from my house. Last night my dad was like "Did you hear about the girls in Gloucester that made a pact to get pregnant and now like 15 girls are pregnant!"

I thought he meant the Gloucester that's 20 minutes away. Lulz.

[Mr~Pan]

The school already has a day care center for kids with....kids, mind you this is a highschool.


Nuff said

[Allstar]

What the freak am I doing living in Kentucky?


Come to Kentucky baby, we won't make babies but we can practice!

[NUN-PUNCHER]

Too bad they're all under 18. If they were 18 they could all come down to my " One Stop Knock-up Shop. "
I saw the story on the news about one of the girls banging down the homeless man in an alley. Funny how the school gets all the blame....Blame for handing out condoms and contraceptives and blame for the girls getting knocked up.
Let the parents take out their frustrations on Juno and Knocked Up after all that's the easy way out for them because parenting is soooo difficult. As they publicly cry about these movies, more and more will fly off the shelves. Their good, funny movies they deserve to make more money.

Also funny how opposite things are now. Back when I went to school girls were making packs not to have sex until they got married. Trust me, those were tough organizations to crack. I found great enjoyment in undermining them. Now it's the complete opposite

[zero2000]

Is there going to be an abortion pact?

[Go Pre]

That's disgusting. If that we're my daughter I'd put her up for adoption while I still had the chance.